Fondue blog: your say on doom list

We are both now thoroughly depressed and wallowing in our respective pits of despair after completing our list of top five 'we're all doomed' films. Next week things will be light and cheesy. We promise.

Make sure you return here again on Monday for a whole new topic of discussion which will not involve contemplating mankind's fragile existence.

In the meantime, tell us what you think of this week's selection. Go on. Kick us while we're down. We love it!

LATEST COMMENTS

Just to let you know that your fondue is consistently delicious to read and has made me check out some good movies on your recommendations! What about top 5 species who attempt to take over the world (just so want to get you guys to watch "Kingdom of the Spiders"

Posted by: Di R on October 28, 2005 12:37 PM

28 Days Later was THE biggest (non-Tom Cruise) pile of excrement I have ever seen.

Posted by: dude on October 28, 2005 1:05 PM

Gotta say, I'm a little disappointed to see Soylent Green in today's list. The post-apocalyptic survivors in that film aren't doomed, they're just, you know, badly nourished. Is the content of soylent green any worse, really, than the content of a quarter pounder? And why is it a quarter pounder here, anyway? Don't we have the metric system? Shouldn't it be a Royale With Cheese? What does it all mean?

If you ask me (and I note you did but I didn't say so when i had the opportunity so have only myself to blame), you should have had Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1979 version). Now that's a doom flick. (The original has this watered-down ending where there's the possibility of stopping the alien invasion before it gets too far -- no such luck in the remake -- plus the 79 version has Donald Sutherland with reallt scary hair).

Posted by: Matthew on October 28, 2005 1:16 PM

I love your column, but as worthy and fascinating as some of the apocalyptic films that you have listed sound, I don't think that I could bring myself to willingly sit through them - way to depressing and disturbing.

Shame - I wish my school had forced Threads on me.

Posted by: Kat on October 28, 2005 2:18 PM

It's interesting to see that the 'all' in the We're all Doomed was taken to be universal. What about some of the good old 'We're Thrown Together by Circumstance and We're all Doomed' movies???

Just look to the '70s disatser flicks of The Poseidon Adventure (true, the ending isn't totally nilhilistic and a sad case of life imitating art for Shelley Winters) or The Cassandra Crossing.

Posted by: Jason on October 28, 2005 2:24 PM

I'm intrigued that fellow poster Jason doesn't think that the word "all" should be taken to be universal. What, in Jason't vocabulary, does "all" mean, if it doesn't actually mean all? If, in the context of this column, not all of us are doomed, why would we call it a "we're all doomed" movie?

Then again, the other day Peter Beattie said something about John Howard having kept all of his promises, so that definition of "all" might be catching on.